envenom
Example Sentences
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Still, an ascent by Ben-Gvir, a West Bank settler, to a ministerial role would further envenom Israel's standoff with the Palestinians and strain its internal Jewish-Arab ties.
From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2022
Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Passions it is, human passions, intermingling with the wrong itself that envenom the sense of wrong.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
Mothers of families, dowagers who had granddaughters to establish, young girls jealous of Natalie, whose elegance and tyrannical beauty annoyed them, took pains to envenom this opinion with treacherous remarks.
From The Marriage Contract by Balzac, Honoré de
To all the passions which usually envenom contests among countrymen, avarice was added, and rendered their enmity more rancorous.
